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RYE, N.Y., Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Jarden Corporation (NYSE: JAH) today announced that its Board of Directors approved a 3-for-2 stock split of its outstanding shares of common stock. Stockholders of record at the close of business on February 25, 2013 will receive one additional share of Jarden common stock for every two shares of Jarden common stock owned on that date. The additional shares are expected to be distributed on or about March 18, 2013. After giving effect to the split, the Company will have approximately 117.9 million shares of common stock outstanding.
Martin E. Franklin, Executive Chairman, commented, "The stock split announced today reflects the confidence the Board and management have in our business strategy and ability to continue Jarden's positive performance over the long term. Today's stock split represents our fourth since 2002."
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Jarden Corporation is a leading provider of a diverse range of consumer products with a portfolio of over 100 trusted, quality brands sold globally. Jarden operates in three primary business segments through a number of well recognized brands, including: Outdoor Solutions: Abu Garcia®, Aero®, Berkley®, Campingaz® and Coleman®, ExOfficio®, Fenwick®, Gulp!®, K2®, Marker®, Marmot®, Mitchell®, Penn®, Rawlings®, Shakespeare®, Stearns®, Stren®, Trilene®, Volkl® and Zoot®; Consumer Solutions: Bionaire®, Breville®, Crock-Pot®, FoodSaver®, Health o meter®, Holmes®, Mr. Coffee®, Oster®, Patton®, Rival®, Seal-a-Meal®, Sunbeam®, VillaWare® and White Mountain®; and Branded Consumables: Ball®, Bee®, Bernardin®, Bicycle®, Billy Boy®, Crawford®, Diamond®, Dicon®, Fiona®, First Alert®, First Essentials®, Hoyle®, Kerr®, Lehigh®, Lifoam®, Lillo®, Loew Cornell®, Mapa®, NUK®, Pine Mountain®, Quickie®, Spontex® and Tigex®. Headquartered in Rye, N.Y., Jarden ranks #371 on the Fortune 500 and has over 25,000 employees worldwide. For in-depth information about Jarden, please visit www.jarden.com.
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Oxfam Reaction to New Arms Trade Treaty Text: The historic treaty we need is within reach
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"There have been some improvements since the last text and the historic treaty we need is within reach.
"A major problem is that arms transfers under defense agreements may not be affected by this treaty. We are concerned that this would not stop the latest arms sales from Russia to Syria which are still under contractual agreement. An Arms Trade Treaty should ban such transfers whether or not the two countries are under contract. Russia knows that arms are being used to kill innocent civilians. They should not be allowed to continue to sell weapons to Damascus.
"Public reporting of arms sales has now been cut from the treaty. This needs to change if we are to hold irresponsible arms sellers to account.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Supporting Japan In a Different Way
Puroresu, or the Japanese style of wrestling, has traditionally been a niche market for American fans, drawing mostly those committed enough to scour the Internet for videos, discussions, and others willing to trade tapes and DVDs.
But this spring, a distinct Japanese presence will take center stage on America's East Coast, as performers from Dragon Gate, Michinoku Pro, Osaka Pro, New Japan, and Big Japan grace American rings for CHIKARA, Jersey All Pro Wrestling, and CZW.
These three U.S.-based sponsors, all known for promoting shows in the same general region of the Northeast, will host the incoming Japanese performers for a total of seven shows between April 9 and May 15, with all the shows happening within a 100-mile radius of each other. Three of the shows will, in fact, take place in the same building.
Add Gabe Sapolsky's Dragon Gate USA promotion, which has run shows featuring Japanese talent throughout the Northeast since launching in the summer of 2009, and the market becomes even more saturated. Fortunately, DragonGate USA's April shows will be further south, booked in Burlington, North Carolina, and Atlanta during WrestleMania weekend.
To help try to differentiate itself from the rest, each of these American promotions has taken a different approach. CZW has booked Big Japan's Daisuke Sekimoto for its Best of the Best tournament, which will also feature talent from Germany's wXw promotion. Jersey All Pro is promoting its Triple-Shot Showcase with New Japan. The theme is "Attack on the East Coast," and is a rare opportunity to see top talent including Prince Devitt in U.S. appearances. Devitt will compete against Low-Ki when the show hits New York City on May 14. For CHIKARA, booking Japanese teams for its annual King of Trios tournament is nothing new. But this year, the promoters have turned up the volume in an apparent attempt to directly challenge Jersey All Pro and New Japan's joint venture. CHIKARA's three-night show will feature the U.S. returns of Great Sasuke, Dick Togo, and Jinsei Shinzaki, as well as the second stateside appearance of joshi (female) legend Manami Toyota, who debuted for the promotion in September to much fanfare. Osaka Pro's Atshushi Kotoge and Daisuke Harada will return for their second Trios appearance in as many years; this year teaming with Ultimate Spider Jr. Finally, a Dragon Gate trio of Super Shisa, Akira Tozawa, and Kagetora will enter the competition.
But even with all the special attractions, will these appearances be enough to help the sponsoring promotions draw a crowd, and ultimately, turn a profit? On the one hand, these Japanese stars, many of them legitimate icons of their own profession, will appeal to the segment of the wrestling fans that follow international companies. These fans will likely shell out whatever money is necessary to see their favorite performers live.
Some casual fans may also recognize some familiar faces from appearances in WWE and WCW, among other companies. While these members of a potential audience may be enticed to attend one of the shows, the prospect of them traveling and spending money to attend more than one or two of the events seems dismal, even if these events are concentrated in a relatively small geographic location.
On the other side of the equation is that all three promotions—CHIKARA, CZW, and Jersey All Pro—have established fan bases that would likely support them under any circumstances. These die-hard fans will come for the regulars and hope to find themselves enthralled with the special guests.
Overall, it seems likely that each company will find success in its own right, but to what extent that will stem from the Japanese presence remains to be seen. Of the three offerings, fans seem to be most thrilled with the prospects of CHIKARA's tournament, especially with the presence of the three Michinoku Pro veterans.
For casual wrestling fans, and the masses of them who refuse to acknowledge independent wrestling, this Japanese invasion may go unnoticed, but for the hardcore puroresu fan base, it may be a true once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, not only to see their favorite international stars, but also to help attract more foreign wrestlers to The States.
The next two months will prove an interesting time that will serve as a gauge of the viability of international stars becoming a draw in the United States. One must also be curious about the relationships and feelings of these promotions and their attempts at out-drawing each other. Taking an optimistic view, I believe this invasion could spark a whole new era of competition among independent promotions, which would be healthy for the wrestling business overall … but only if American puroresu fans respond favorably.
For those who spend their time scouring the Internet for footage of Japanese shows, and consider puroresu superior to anything American companies are putting out, this is your opportunity to show your support by spending a few bucks, which is, after all, the best way to convince more international superstars to return to the States.
If you don't buy tickets to the shows, and/or subsequent DVDs, these types of projects and venture may no longer be considered in the future.
The power is truly in the hands of international wrestling fans. Let's see what you do with it.
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People, go to these shows! The New Japan stuff will amaze you, with the hard-hitting style they work, and the fact that Devitt-Ki will be an MOTYC without a doubt. It's absolutely worth whatever they're charging.
The CHIKARA King of Trios shows will be so much fun, and will remind you of the best memories you ever had of watching WWF Wrestling Challenge, and having Gorilla & The Brain going back & forth w/their non-stop banter. The Great Sasuke is becoming the Japanese version of a latter-day Terry Funk; Shinzaki is in better shape now than he's been in in years; and Dick Togo, the vastly underrated workrate machine, is retiring in a few months...plus the FATTIE SENTON is entirely too awesome for words. Not to mention Super Shisa live? My goodness, YES.
And if you've never seen a Dragon Gate USA show, then you've never seen the evolution of Pro Wrestling. Period.
Go & watch these shows!!!
Great work Adam!
- March 29, 2011 at 10:54 AM
Here's hoping that all the Japanese wrestlers perform at the competitive level that is the trademark of puroresu.
I hope the fans give them a chance so that they can see a whole different style or tradition of pro wrestling.
I hope that the Japanese stars all become points of pride for their country while competing in the U.S.
And I hope that this "invasion" will force WWE and TNA to pull up their socks (to use a phrase from Chris Jericho) and make their own shows better.
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Over at Yahoo! Sports, Andrew Simon (@HitTheCutoff) posted the top-ten position-player tandems. It's a great list, but I couldn't help but wonder where Chase Utley and Ryan Howard ranked. Simon's criteria was that both players must have debuted with the same team and must have become regulars within a year of each other. Utley debuted in 2003 and became a regular in '05 while Howard debuted in '04 and became a regular in '06, so they qualify. (Technically, Howard became a regular in '05, but he didn't play the full season as the starting first baseman.)
Without giving too much of the list away, Will Clark and Robby Thompson ranked tenth on the list with a combined 68.5 WAR (Baseball Reference version, or rWAR). Jim Rice and Fred Lynn were ninth at 71.2 rWAR. Utley and Howard, each with lots of baseball left in them, sit at 62.3 combined rWAR, putting them just outside the top-ten. In FanGraphs WAR (fWAR), they have 70.5, so they are at least in the same company as those on the back end of the top-ten.
This season, Utley has already posted 1 rWAR in 132 plate appearances. If he gets 300 more PA over the rest of the season, he will finish with about 2.3 more rWAR. Howard is at 1.4 with 345 PA, which puts him on pace for about 700 PA and thus projects about 1.4 more rWAR. An additional 3.7 rWAR would bring the duo to 66 rWAR. They would crack the top-ten easily in 2012 and could make a run at the top-seven. It will be hard to crack #6 as the duo of Reggie Jackson and Sal Bando combined for 101.7 rWAR, about 24 ahead of the pair in seventh place.
The big key to ranking highly on this list, aside from having lots of talent, is longevity. Utley became a regular in '05 at the age of 26 while Howard earned an everyday job in '06 also at the age of 26. By comparison, Clark and Thompson were playing everyday at the ages of 22 and 24. Jackson debuted at 21 and earned an everyday job at 22; Bando, 22 and 24, respectively. Additionally, Jackson and Bando finished their careers at the ages of 41 and 37. Utley and Howard didn't have the benefit of their early-20's, but they can finish near the top of the list by having long, productive careers, which requires a lot of luck and a lot of hard work, the latter certainly not an unknown trait to the Phillies' right-side pairing.


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I've been trying to figure out why I've been so into the World Cup. I'm not much of a soccer fan, so why have I been glued to the TV during these games? Sure, there's an element of national pride at stake – after all, I did get pretty into the Olympic hockey in February, even though I'm not much of a hockey fan at all. And ESPN has been promoting the hell out of the Cup, so my awareness of its existence has certainly been heightened. But most of all, I think I'm just a sucker for any sporting event that takes place during weekday mornings and afternoons. Most daytime TV is so unappealing to me that any semi-decent sporting event – March Madness, the Summer Olympics, the first couple days of a major golf tournament – almost always ropes me in.
Of course…I have a job. I'm supposed to be working during the day. Which means the World Cup has the potential to be something of a distraction.. So, the big question: how do I keep distractions from becoming a problem? Well, like most anti-vuvuzela U.S. viewers, I can turn the sound off. That's the great thing about sports (and, to a lesser extent, cable news) – you can watch it on mute and still get something out of it. Or, I could leave the sound on, and turn away from the TV. Enjoy those sarcastic British announcers calling France's play "pathetic"! It's like listening to talk radio or music while you work – it only requires part of your attention. Think of it like this: most of us can do two things at once, but three is a lot harder. Watching soccer and listening to soccer both take my attention. That doesn't leave a lot of my brain for work.
Or, another idea: each hour, give myself 5-10 minutes of uninterrupted, sensory overload soccer time. When it's over, devote myself fully to work. This has several benefits: it forces me to work without distractions, lets me enjoy the soccer fully (albeit on a reduced basis), and allows me to rationalize my soccer-watching as "clearing my head time".
When working at home, I have a similar problem – I love to play online poker. (Don't worry, my life savings are not at risk – I like to joke with my wife that while I do have the addictive gambling gene, I also have the cheapness gene, and they cancel each other out. Also, if I go to Vegas for a few days, she doesn't have to worry about me being tempted by any strip clubs. I'll be at the poker table the whole time.) Online poker is available to me 24-7, and, as it happens, involves being at my computer – yes, the very same computer I write on.
For a while, I thought I had come up with an ingenious solution. I would simultaneously write and play in a low-stakes online poker tournament. As long as the TV and web browser were shut off, this fulfilled my "one distraction maximum" rule – plus it kept me anchored to my seat and forced me to write. Eventually, however, I realized that I was not devoting my full attention to the writing. So now, I try to limit myself to no more than thirty minutes of online poker per day. This allows me to get in just enough action to fulfill my jones but not so much that it's affecting the amount of work I get done.
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Hello Everyone :D I wanted to enter this costume designing contest because I have a strong passion for designing fun, innovative and memorable projects. When I found out that this particular contest was focused on designing Halloween costumes, I was really excited because Halloween is also my mom's BIRTHDAY! Every year, we have a themed costume party. This year, we chose to dress up in the category of Fairy-tales. I love the Disney movie, "The Princess and the Frog" and wanted to dress up as Tiana. My family always has a high-stakes costume contest. Trust me, this is a heated contest with the winner getting to brag about their victory until her next birthday rolls around. I really want to win both of these contests, so I spent a lot of time in thought and design for this costume. I hope you all enjoy it :)
I thought it would be fun to make a costume that started out as a frog and transformed into a princess. I made the frog costume large enough to fit the entire dress inside. Once it is unzipped, the princess costume is unfurled! The Dress consists of a very full tu-tu made of light green, dark green, and glitter Tulle in cut-out leaf shapes, a gathered Chiffon bodice, Tulle puff-sleeves, and gathered glitter Tulle attached to the bottom of the bodice. I added the glitter-elastic trim as a tie around the waist, and topped it off with a faux Lily flower and leaves. The frog costume is made of a frog-print cotton fabric, elastic in the arm and leg openings, and a zipper in front (for easy unveiling of the princess costume!). The frog hat is made of rounded felt, and googly-eyes.
This was quite a fun costume to make, and I hope you see the creativity and time I put into it :D
Material Notes
- 4 different types of Tulle
- Fade-out Chiffon
- Frog- print Cotton
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- Fabric Dye
- 2 types of elastic
- Felt Hat
- Googly Eyes
- Faux Lily with leaves
- Basic Headband
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Oct 26, 2011, 09.24 PMby destriedee
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Oct 25, 2011, 09.50 PMby destriedee
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First, it is entirely possible to happily run Sabayon 3.5 Pod (the 700 meg mini edition) without any of the following steps. If you have no interest in compiling your own applications or maintaining 100% Gentoo compatability then you are already good to go. Sabayon 3.5 as stands is a complete operating system and will work fine in binary (no compiling) mode. However if you truly need Gentoo compatability or the ability to bring packages in from the other various Gentoo overlays then the following steps should position you to do so.
We will start with one single assumption, that you have actually already finished installing Pod. It is from that point, actually rebooting into the system and functioning from the install that we will proceed.
Adding portage support to Sabayon 3.5 Pod
Before starting on this, you're going to want to download the portage database appropriate for your architecture. Please point your browser to: http://www.sabayonlnux.org/mod/mirrors/ Choose a mirror.
If you are using the 32 bit Sabayon Pod, you will download the following file: Sabayon-Linux-x86-3.5-Pod.portage.db.tar.bz2
If you are using the 64 bit Sabayon Pod, you will download this file: Sabayon-Linux-x86_64-3.5-Pod.portage.db.tar.bz2
Once you have downloaded the appropriate portage database file, you will do the following commands:
su (Please make sure to enter the root password when asked) cd /var/db/pkg/ mv /home/user/Sabayon-Linux-x86-3.5-Pod.portage.db.tar.bz2 . (For 64 bit, the filename will beSabayon-Linux-x86_64-3.5-Pod.portage.db.tar.bz2 ) tar xjvf Sabayon-Linux-x86-3.5-Pod.portage.db.tar.bz2 ***NOTE*** Please try your best to copy and paste, or you may miss a vital but easy to miss dot which is part of a command.
Now we are really ready to begin. From here on out we will be working ONLY in command line and as root. Yes some of this can be done with GUI applications, but trust me when I say it's faster and easier using command line. We will start with a little preparation work.
equo update equo install entropy equo world
This will bring your system 100% up to current. So now we can get into the meat of the matter of bringing your system up to Gentoo compatability. As one command we can install all the packages we need. You may want to install gcc separately if you end up with errors regarding gcc. This may be attributed to needing to add the version number.
equo install portage layman libtool gettext linux-sabayon glibc linux-headers subversion gentoolkit equo install sys-devel/gcc
Add the following USE flags to /etc/make.conf
jpeg ldap spell fam vorbis gstreamer encode mpeg truetype mad xml mikmod xv device-mapper
Depending on your connection speed and the strength of your CPU this can take some time to accomplish. Once this is done we need to issue an few more time consuming commands.
emerge --sync etc-update layman -S echo "source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf" >> /etc/make.conf fixpackages gcc-config -l (After this, you will re-run gcc-config and choose the appropriate version) source /etc/profile eselect env update
After all that is done ... congrats, your all finished. Everything should be working for you now.
- Lythandrel: for proofreading and suggesting grammatical and syntax corrections
- Rand_A: for the start of the list of missing packages
- Wolfden: for more on the list of missing packages
- irc.freenode.net #Sabayon for moral support during the fresh install and long testing/trial period while putting this together
- lxnay: for putting out the best Linux distro to be had
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Then my newest issue of Cook's Country Magazine arrived, and I spotted their "Reduced Fat German Chocolate Cake, I felt a glimmer of hope. Is it possible, that my very favorite chocolate cake-- with that gooey, caramel coconut and pecan frosting-- could taste delicious and have a lot less calories and fat? Here's what Cook's Country (which is owned by Cooks Illustrated/America's Test Kitchen) had to say about this recipe "makeover":
- Although we usually don't cut portion size to reduce calorie count, a triple-layer cake was too over-the-top. Two layers provided an ample serving.
- We rejected traditional German's chocolate (which gave the cake its name), as it tastes more of sugar than anything else, and used a combination of chopped milk chocolate and Dutch-processed cocoa instead.
- For frosting with deep caramel flavor, we relied entirely on brown sugar.
- Fatty egg yolks typically thicken the frosting, but we found cornstarch worked equally well, without so many added calories.
- Traditional recipes have 740 calories, 45 grams of fat, and 23 grams of saturated fat per serving. Our changes brought the numbers down to 340 calories, 13 grams of fat, and 7 grams of saturated fat.
A few facts about German Chocolate cake-- You won't find this in Germany. Like Chop Suey being an American invented dish--so is German Chocolate Cake! This German Chocolate cake's main flavor component is that milk chocolate is used, rather than dark chocolate. While I really like my Dark Chocolate cake recipe, and this Chocolate Sheet Cake, I am a bigger fan of white chocolate (which isn't really chocolate) and milk chocolate.
To me, the flavor of a cake is in the proof of the batter. I liked the consistency, and it tasted good. The chocolate flavor was subtle, which is a good thing for someone who isn't a big fan of dark chocolate-- and I accept that I'm probably in the minority.
When we started this assignment, we ran to the health food store to pick up unsweetened coconut. Unsweetened has fewer calories than the sweet stuff ordinarily used in German chocolate cake, right? Wrong. Ounce for ounce, sweetened coconut has fewer calories and less fat! How can that be? Sweetened coconut contains more water, which means fewer calories per cup of coconut. We used the sweetened coconut in our cake after all.
EVERYONE ELSE'S VERDICT: They loved it! I left the majority of the cake with our guests-- but Craig wanted two slices to come back home. That pretty much sums up, that this cake is worthy of a repeat performance.
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Costello leaves mark on FFA at national convention in Kentucky
He didn't know the opportunities of FFA
"I gave about 80 speeches over the year and I still got nervous because you get that way when you care about something," Costello said. "I spoke from the heart and enjoyed it."
Former Gothenburg 2011 graduate Brennan Costello was a national officer in the FFA, formally known as Future Farmers of America, for the past year.
He retired from his central region vice president position Oct. 31 in front of 14,000 members at the National FFA Convention & Expo in Louisville, KY.
In his final address, Costello said he challenged members of the largest student-led organization in the country to be brave and have a reason for being brave.
"The reason to be brave is for others," Costello said. "Do small things everyday in a brave way. Speak to someone, stand up for something. Don't just do something without a purpose."
He said the theme of the convention was "Ignite" and encouraged students to start a movement and rise to the challenges faced in the agricultural industry.
While serving as the central region vice president, Costello said he travelled to 36 states in about 297 days and talked to more than 130,000 FFA members while at workshops, camps and conventions.
How did Costello become a national representative?
As a freshman at Gothenburg High School he said he didn't know the opportunities FFA offered but he wanted to learn more about agriculture.
As part of the Gothenburg chapter, Costello was elected state president in 2011 and served until 2012. During this time, he was adding hours of agricultural education, completing supervised ag projects and doing community service projects all for a resume.
"It wasn't until the end of my senior year that I knew I wanted to run for state office," Costello said.
While state FFA president, he was encouraged by mentors to run for national office.
During last year's national convention, Costello was elected to the one-year, central region vice-president term by nine FFA officers.
While in national office, Costello met with industry leaders like officials from John Deere and had the chance to be part of the elite club of national FFA officers.
The FFA has only had 510 national officers and Costello is a part of that group.
"It was a very good year of experience and an incredible opportunity that most 20-year-old students don't get to have," he said.
Costello added that he was glad he shared the experience of the convention with his parents Steve and Becky Costello and his two sisters, Madison and Arleigh.
Costello will return to classes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in January.
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Florida guard Michael Frazier II showed more than his shooting ability during Team USA 19-under tryouts.
Florida guard Michael Frazier II showed more than his shooting ability during Team USA 19-under tryouts.
That's what convinced the Team USA coaching staff, led by UF coach Billy Donovan, to carry Frazier on the final roster.
Frazier will more than likely serve the role as shooter off the bench when Team USA opens play at the FIBA 19-under World Championships on Thursday in Prague, Czech Republic. But he thinks he can help the team in other areas.
"I tried to show them different areas of my game, like passing, rebounding, being intense on defense, talking, being a leader, things like that," Frazier said. "I wouldn't have been invited (to tryouts) if I couldn't shoot the ball, so I think they all knew that. I tried to show different parts of my game."
Frazier shot 46.9 percent from 3-point range as a freshman (52-111) and his ability to bust zone defenses should prove valuable in facing international competition. "Playing-wise it's going to be a different game," Frazier said. "It's more physical. Shooting is a big part of the game over there so we're going to have to be able to stretch the floor but also have to use our strengths like our athleticism and our quickness and length and things like that." It won't be Frazier's first trip overseas. As a high school senior, the 6-foot-4 Tampa native played in China with Montverde Academy. But it will be the first time Frazier will be in uniform with Team USA colors. "I'm very honored to be able to represent my country," Frazier said. Frazier said he's building chemistry with his current teammates, which include Oklahoma State All-American guard Marcus Smart and Tennessee center Jarnell Stokes. "It's really fun playing with these guys," Frazier said. "They all know how to play the game, they're great players. I think we gel good together on the court. I think it's just a really fun experience for all of us and we're going to try to go overseas and win the gold." Frazier said Donovan is coaching Team USA similar to how he coaches Florida. "We're pressing a lot, running a lot of the same offense," Frazier said. "A lot of the same movement, and we're just trying to impose our style of play which is getting up and down the court."


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Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard believes a top-four place remains within their grasp and that it is the next two months that are likely to decide whether they qualify for the Champions League this campaign.
A 2-2 draw against Manchester City - for the second time this season a defensive mistake costing them victory against the champions - provided hope for the remainder of the campaign.
And although Liverpool are still nine points adrift of fourth-placed Tottenham Gerrard is optimistic that gap can be reduced.
In the next nine weeks Spurs are the only side who are above them with other matches against West Brom, Swansea, Wigan, Southampton, Aston Villa, West Ham and Reading - particularly significant as the Reds have yet to beat any team currently in the top half.
"It's certainly up there with our best performance of the season," Gerrard said.
"We can take a lot of belief from the way we've performed against Arsenal (also 2-2 last Wednesday) and Manchester City.
"We need to build on this and I'm feeling really confident about our ability to move up the table.
"We might not have got the results we wanted against the top sides but every time we have certainly matched them if not bettered them in games.
"We just need to try to cut out our mistakes and turn those draws into wins.
"No disrespect to the sides we've got coming up but if we keep playing like that then we can certainly put in a challenge for fourth place.
"If we perform like that we will pick up a lot of points between now and the end of the season."
The arrival of Daniel Sturridge last month in a £12million move from Chelsea has provided the necessary spark manager Brendan Rodgers would have wanted.
Not only has he eased the pressure on Luis Suarez but the 23-year-old has already made an impact with four goals in his first six appearances, including a brilliant equaliser against City.
His movement and direct running has given the side another dimension and Gerrard was quick to recognise that contribution.
"The team is looking really strong at the moment," the England captain told the Liverpool Echo.
"Before the transfer window we were lacking a bit up front as Luis Suarez was almost having to do two jobs.
"But now Daniel Sturridge has come in and given us more options going forward.
"Daniel has done brilliantly for us so far."
Rodgers, having instilled a new way of working following his arrival at Anfield last summer, believes the players are finally starting to see the fruits of their labours.
He knows, however, for them to have long-term success they have to eradicate errors like the one which saw goalkeeper Jose Reina race from his goal only to be beaten by Sergio Aguero from the narrowest of angles to make it 2-2.
"That is all part of our growth but what was important for me was to see the confidence in the players and the desire and the quality," he said.
"They showed great character. We maybe are missing two or three players who can really help the group that clubs like Manchester City have but you can't fault the players.
"Going forward that is a positive for us. Once we cut out those mistakes then draws will turn into wins and we can become a real force because we have some really talented players.
"We are growing and building and our template in the game is improving all the time."
While the younger players are starting to impress more it was the 30-something stalwarts Gerrard and Jamie Carragher, back in the side for an extended run, who the Reds boss admits remain vital to their development.
"I thought they were brilliant," he added.
"Carragher marshalled the defence and put in two big performances in two big games (having played against Arsenal on Wednesday).
"He was up against top players - Aguero is one of the best in the world - and Steven Gerrard you have just seen him get better and better as the season has gone on once he has got a grasp of what we are trying to do.
"The senior players are vital for us. We have a lot of young, talented players who are going to need time to grow but whilst they are growing we have senior players who have been outstanding."


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Israel is a very interesting country which is unique in regard to its people's creative and innovative IT development abilities. Israel is not, however, renowned for its marketing capabilities. This does not come as a surprise since Israeli firms have little experience with international marketing (as opposed to the U.S., for instance, which is considered the marketing leader of the world).
Search Engine Optimization in Israel
Search engine optimization is growing in Israel and in February, one of the largest Israeli portals, NRG Maariv, held a Google Bombing competition: Latoor Motor (in Hebrew: לתור מוטור). The competition invited the search engine optimization community to take the Hebrew translation of the two words "לתור מוטור" and promote any Web content that targets that phrase in order to achieve top rankings among organic search results of Google Israel (http://www.Google.co.il). In search of mass ratings, NRG Maariv was using its homepage and explicitly called for anyone to "fool Google."
Bombing Google in Israel
As noted in Wikipedia, Google bombing competitions are won by sites that use a combination of keyword spamming and, at times, link spamming. Google has publicly commented about Google Bombing in the past, calling it "cyber graffiti." In my opinion, it didn't want to give too much attention to the phenomena, hoping to diminish its publicity; but I'm quite sure that the Google engineers are very much against (and possibly afraid of) competitions that mess with their algorithms, increase their transparency, attract potential lawsuits and affect users' experience of finding and browsing search results.
Getting back to the Google bombing competition going on in Israel till the end of February 2005, the response was pretty impressive among many small-time SEOs and webmasters, many of whom have less than two years of experience in the field and fewer have ongoing hands-on experience in handling real optimization campaigns while professionally servicing real clients. Personally, I was quite disappointed with the approach of this competition, as I oppose the over-rating of any Google bombing competition. I would like to share my opinions and my reasons for this.
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First, Google bombing competitions are what the initiators might call a "Google Test," "SEO Challenge," "SEO Competition," and so forth. The idea is to take a search query (i.e. term or phrase), which at the time of the competition's announcement, returns either no results (i.e. "Your search did not match any documents"), or results that are going to be very easy to beat. This sterile search results space is now a good starting point for competitors to start their optimization race. At a specified pre-set date and time, the judges of the competition search for the targeted phrase and Google SERPs define the order of placement winners (first place winner, second place winner, and so forth).
Google Bombing Competitions Deliver the Wrong Message
The first reason that I don't like such competitions is that they give the field of SEO a bad name. Search marketing is the primary driver for the growing Internet advertising market. It is a sophisticated field that requires a combination of technical and Web marketing knowledge, skills and most importantly – experience.
In the real world where competitive market players are operating, SEO is not a practice to hack Google by simply fiddling around with on-copy optimization techniques (reminder: don't you love it when people ask you if a website can be pushed to the top by simply stuffing some keywords into the Meta tag…!?!). Google bombing competitions deliver the wrong message to people outside the community, including potential clients and stakeholders, that Google can be pretty easily hacked in order to quickly achieve top rankings for any website within any market. That message is far from the truth.
Professionals search marketers today already know that SEO and search marketing as a whole is only one small (and critical) part of the sales and/or relationship-building chain. It is only part of the lead generation link in the chain. Why only part of a link and not an entire link? Well, would you contact a business after landing on its website following a click on a search engine result, only to find out that the content of the site is not to your satisfactory? That the company seems unreliable? That you find it really irritating to navigate and find the information you are seeking for? If your answer is "no," then it means that the other side has just lost a lead. Hence, in this case, the lead generation link in the chain is broken.
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What does this have to do with Google bombing contests? The winner of the competition may deserve some credit for achieving the top ranking but it does not reflect the real world, since the winner doesn't really care if a search engine user would have been converted into a real lead. Things like "conversion rates," "brand recognition" and "consumer confidence" are completely outside the scope of a Google bombing competition, but are very much inside the scope of a real search engine marketing campaign.
So, in that case, who cares if the competing site has terrible graphics? If the fonts are ugly and take up half of the entire page? Who cares if the copy of the homepage doesn't make sense, thus making new visitors leave the site within 20 seconds? And there are more unrealistic elements to a Google bombing contest. For instance, the winner's site may well be supported by a link campaign that is unrealistic because it has exchanged links with other players in the same exact market, as defined by a set of keywords. Most real clients would be reluctant to exchange links with their direct competitors. All in all, why should the winner of a Google bombing competition care if the winning site cannot convert a single user?
The Relationship Between Algorithm Architects and Professional SEOs
A second reason that I don't like Google bombing competitions is that they may trigger unhealthy instability in the subtle relationship between search engine algorithm architects and professional, ethical SEOs. I argue that the evolution of search engine technology is beneficial to users, search engine companies and professional SEOs. Thus, when search engine algorithms become more complex and performance is improved, professional SEOs should be happy with that, rather than frowning at it!
Why? Eventually, it requires SEOs to evolve while improving the convergence of their marketing and technical skills. This is harder to do and, in turn, creates a situation where the stronger and more professional SEOs survive while the weaker SEOs are left behind. And if you agree that stability between professional, ethical SEOs and search engine algorithm architects is beneficial for both sides, then both should not support Google bombing competitions that may force the search engine architects to tweak certain parts of an already stable algorithm, just because they must avoid transparency (for obvious reasons).
To summarize, while it is possible to find certain merits in Google bombing competitions, such as the exhibition and learning of a variety of SEO techniques being used, high publicity of such competitions impose serious disadvantages to the SEO community. For the long term, such competitions present the SEO practice in a bad light.


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Dr. Susan Haddox
Teaching Area(s): Philosophy/Religious Studies
Title: Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Courses Taught: Religious Studies
As an undergraduate student, I majored in biology, chemistry and biochemistry and minored in music. Every time I had space for an elective, the courses that sounded most interesting to me were in religion, so I ended up with a religion minor as well. I went to graduate school for biology, but I realized it wasn't where I was supposed to be, so I left after finishing a master's degree and went to seminary and then on for doctorate degree in Hebrew Bible. My love of Hebrew led me to studying the Bible as my specialty.
Professional Accomplishments
My book Metaphor and Masculinity in Hosea was published last year, which was rewarding. It's always a thrill to read an article or go to a presentation and see my work cited because it means I've become part of the scholarly conversation in my field. I am also President of the Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society.
Teaching Style
I like to bring music and art into the classroom when possible to help students think about interpreting texts. In some of my classes I also use film. I use exercises in which students compare texts in small groups. I introduce students to different approaches to the text by having them read and present a variety of articles. Probably my favorite assignment for students is a creative interpretation of a biblical text.
Favorite Part of Teaching
I love working with students and helping them discover new and more complex ways to understand texts. It's rewarding to see students start to make connections and see things that they had not previously noticed. I also love doing my own research and seeing new things and connections myself.
Places on Campus
I love the windows in my office. The North Reading room in KHIC is a great place to hang out, because of the light and the view. I hold my Hebrew reading group there.
Mount Union Community
Mount Union has an identity as an institution that meets students where they are and helps them rise to a new level. It has a strong and enduring sense of community.
Prepping Students
We have strong programs that help our majors, minors and students from across campus develop capacities for empathy, critical thinking and communication that will help them to succeed and have a meaningful life in whatever careers they undertake. Learning to understand and work with different perspectives and different cultures is essential for living in an increasingly interconnected world, and these are things that the humanities, including religious studies, foreground.
Research Interests
Gender in the Bible
B.A., Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Gustavus Adolphus College
M.S., Biological Sciences, Stanford University
M.Div., Pacific School of Religion
Ph.D., Hebrew Bible, Emory University
I like to bring music and art into the classroom when possible to help students think about interpreting texts. In some of my classes I also use film.
- If You Could Teach Another Class
- I would teach a class on masculinity studies.
- Words from a Student
- One of the big lessons I learned when I was in college is that we never know what's going on in someone else's life unless that person tells us. This is continually brought home to me. Making assumptions is always dangerous.
- Places to Visit or Things to Do
- I love traveling and have been privileged to visit many places already. The safari we took in Botswana was probably my favorite so far. High on the list of places I'd still like to visit are Peru, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands.
- Favorite Movie
- It's hard to pick a favorite, but the two I have perhaps watched the most are The Princess Bride and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. I mean, it's hard to beat a Shakespeare-quoting Klingon.
- Favorite Book
- One of them is My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok.
- Hobbies and Interests
- I'm a musician. I play violin, piano and organ. I play in two orchestras and serve as a substitute organist at my church and sometimes elsewhere. I'm a Certified Lay Speaker in the United Methodist Church. I also like to bake.


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Firemen race for a cure at Shawnee Peak
Mary's Firemen for a Cure benefits Susan G. Komen
Firemen race for a cure at Shawnee Peak
Mary's Firemen for a Cure benefits Susan G. Komen
BRIDGTON, Maine —
Firemen from Maine and New Hampshire raced down the slopes at Shawnee Peak Saturday to help fight cancer.
It was the 10th annual Mary's Firemen for a Cure fundraiser to benefit Susan G. Komen for a cure.
The event is named after Mary Allen who lost her battle with breast cancer in 2005. Allen worked at Shawnee Peak and her husband served as a North Bridgton firefighter.
"It's just a great way to honor my mom," Allen's son Dave Soutter said. "The race that she started and see all these people here who knew her and cared about her the way we did, it's a really, really special day."
Firefighters from Harrison took home first place.
This year's fundraiser raised more than $10,000.
News 8 was a proud sponsor of the race.


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Clearly governments are finding it more and more difficult to get their sums to add up, as the nascent economic recovery stalls. However, perhaps paradoxically, the failure of confidence may end up reducing uncertainty: it will be clear that the crisis continues, and that therefore the policy prescriptions will be clearer too. In other words, I think we are on course for a classic market capitulation.
Equity markets, after the August debacle, are indeed looking relatively attractive, yet there is still the lurking problem of the banks: buying the market at the moment leaves you exposed to what are very likely to be further losses in that sector. So, selective purchases of good quality non financials? That is certainly worth considering- it all depends on the collateral damage from the next fall.
Market capitulation is tricky to manage, even if you expect it to happen.


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West Gallery
When you look up, look out or look around, how do you intepret the sky? We asked out member artists to send us their SKY paintings. Those paintings that have the sky as a focal point. Sunrise or sunset, cloudy or bright, stormy skies, reflected skies, fog, stars, the sun and the moon. Come see how these4 artists interpret and represent all things skies.
Middle Room
A celebration of those who cultivate and teach our next generation of artists, The Head of the Class presents works by art teachers in Lamoille County schools. We will fill our middle room with the work of these artists who by example and through their work as teachers instill artistic values and inspiration in our children.
East Gallery
Legacy 2018 is full of new works by the best selling artists of 2017! New artists in Legacy 2018 include Dianne Panarelli Miller, Ken Dewaard, Irina Rybakova, Dennis Sheehan, Tom Adkins, and SSam Vokey. They join returning favorites, Eric Tobin, Andrew Orr, TM Nicholas, Julie Y Baker Albright, Jeanette Fournier, Bob Aiken, Susan Bull Riley, Tom Nicholas, Mark Tougias, Fiona Cooper Fenwick, Chris Magadini, Mary Martin, Jayne Shoup, and John Clarke Olson.


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Culinary Cinema: Mussels In Love
Sie FilmCenter
2510 E. Colfax Ave.
Denver, CO 80206
Sie FilmCenter
2510 E. Colfax Ave.
Denver, CO 80206
During this unusual screening, glimpse the exciting start of mussel season in the Dutch province of Zeeland and marvel at how much its inhabitants love these mollusks. Start with a pre-film cocktail and snack from New World Cheese, then learn about Dutch biologists, chefs, and gynecologists, all of whom depend on this sea creature in their work. After the movie, enjoy a dinner of gourmet mussels prepared by Three Tomatoes Catering, Bistro Vendôme, and the Oceanaire Seafood Room. Tue 7:15 p.m.
—Image courtesy of Berlinale Kulinarisches Kino
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I have had days with almost zero whitecaps at Mentor Headlands beach on Lake Erie. The fact of the matter is that there was a very short fetch. There is this phenomenon when the water is still very cold and its a warm sunny day, the wind right near this beach picks up VERY steady, and just near the beach. You can see a reverse wind line about a mile out, where the water goes from light ripples to glassy. There are no whitecaps because the wind hasn't had time to get the waves moving. But I had some really great sessions that way. I learned to do aerial rotations on one of those days.
And I agree, the video isn't a good comparison. SUP vs. raceboard. But it does argue very well for the Crossbow.
How about the Skingshot Turbine? Anyone have any experience with that as a light wind kite?


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The Humpback's Wail with Chrissie Gittins
Date and Time:
September 10, 2011 - 11:00AM
Event Location:
Kray Hall
Free and Open to the Public
Chrissie Gittins reads from her latest book of poems, The Humpback's Wail, and shares the different ways in which she creates her poetry and writing. Gittins's poems have been called "imaginative snapshots taken with a quirky edge that appeals to children" (Pie Corbett). Gittins is the author of the poetry collections I Don't Want an Avocado for an Uncle and Now You See Me, Now You… Her poems have been featured on BBC television and radio.
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I absolutely love Mandarin Coriander dish soap. It has a wonderful scent, and when I do the dishes it makes the entire kitchen smell great!
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It's been a long and painful wait for fans of the hit HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, and now that wait is almost at an end.
A brand new trailer, the first for the show's third season, debuted during Jimmy Kimmel Live! Friday night, and hit the Internet shortly after.
The one-minute spot reintroduces us to fan favorites, including Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage), Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and Jon Snow (Kit Harington) as well as introducing a few new, highly anticipated characters for the first time, including Ciarán Hinds makes his first appearances as Mance Rayder.
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This is an excerpt from Golf Anatomy eBook by Craig Davies & Vince DiSaia.
When we speak about strength in golf, we are talking about a complex, multifaceted concept. There is no definitive list of characteristics that identify the "strongest" golfers. We see many of today's top golfers on a daily basis within the confines of the PGA Tour fitness trailers, and there is definitely a large range in their individual physical skill sets.
What is obvious, however, is that those players who are "golf strong" have higher than average performance in a number of individual fitness categories. These categories include balance, body awareness, stability, neuromuscular coordination, power, and endurance. When a golfer is below average in any one of these skill sets, the resultant functional weakness becomes apparent in the golf swing.
Golfers can be above average in strength in the gym while training with machines or free weights, but if they are not able to transfer that gym strength to the golf course, they are wasting the time they spend on their fitness. Traditional bodybuilding has little to no place in developing a strong body for golf. Bodybuilders are concerned about how much weight they can move during an exercise as well as the size of their individual muscles. As a golfer, you need to work your body through multiple planes of movement while concentrating on creating the proper sequencing of muscle activation (using the correct muscles in the correct order during each exercise). We are not saying that muscle strength does not matter, but if the individual muscles cannot communicate and work with each other, then that strength will be useless in your golf swing. For this reason, it is crucial to formulate your fitness routine with exercises that not only improve individual muscle strength but also improve the way muscles work together. This is what we mean by creating functional strength and not just raw strength.
To be truly golf strong, you need to have strength through the entire range of motion involved during your golf swing. A weakness at any joint through any section of the motion will create a breakdown in your golf swing. Lifting weights in one plane while using a bench or traditional machines greatly limits the functional strength that you can develop. This approach eliminates the need for your body to create and maintain stabilization through a full range of motion while performing an exercise. This ability to stabilize is exactly what is needed in golf and therefore must be heavily incorporated into your exercise routine. You will then see that the strength you gain in your fitness training begins to have a much greater carryover to the golf course. For this reason, we have formulated this chapter on golf strength to include exercises that expand on movements and concepts described in the previous chapters and combine them into more functional movements. The exercises in this chapter should be performed only when the exercises in the balance, stability, and mobility chapters can be completed comfortably and with good form.
Many people think that golfers do not need to be strong since they are not running, jumping, or knocking other people over. This attitude is probably due to the fact that the word strength typically conjures up images of a guy with huge muscles benching 300 pounds (135 kg) in the gym. Although this is one form of strength, there are many others. We have already explained that golfers require more of a functional strength to perform at the highest levels. There is also another key reason that strength is important: injury prevention.
The average person would never associate the two words golf and injury. However, as all professional golfers and avid amateur players know, injuries are prevalent throughout the sport and in fact are almost inevitable. The statistics on injuries at the touring level are staggering. About half of all touring professional golfers will have some injury each year that will cause them to miss many weeks of golf. Of those that are playing, up to 30 percent are actually playing injured. Those numbers are very high, and any single injury in a given year can be the difference between keeping your playing card or not. For touring professionals, the tour card is their job ticket. Lose the card, lose the job. For nonprofessional golfers, an injury may mean missing many months of golf or, even worse, deciding to quit golf altogether. For these reasons alone, you should increase your golf strength so you can prevent injuries as much as possible.
You may still be wondering how strength and injuries relate. Let us explain. First of all, there are mainly two types of injuries that occur in golf: joint injuries and soft tissue (muscles, tendons, and ligaments) injuries. Although there are no heavy loads to carry or move in golf (unless you are a caddy!), very high forces develop because of the speed of the swing. The muscles and joints not only help to create these forces but also must be able to generate opposite forces to slow down and ultimately stop the swing. As muscle strength—both individual and functional—increases, so does your ability to withstand the forces within the golf swing. If you do not possess adequate strength in the muscles to create and slow down these forces, then injury is sure to occur. Your soft tissues are your first layer of protection, but when the strength in these soft tissues cannot control the speed and rotation of the swing, the joints will begin to absorb the energy. Although the joints are capable of withstanding some force, they cannot be asked to be the major contributor to acceleration and deceleration. This scenario will surely cause injury and make it impossible to create an efficient swing. Therefore, building up your strength not only helps with your golf swing but also helps ensure you can take as many golf swings as you like.
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Got zeros? Polynomials do! Multiplicity of Zeros (Day 1 of 3)
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Objective: SWBAT• Determine the degree of polynomial functions and understand the relationship between degree and end behavior of polynomial functions. • Write possible equations for a polynomial function, given information about its zeros. • Write polynomial equations in factored form, given the graphs of three functions.
Big Idea: Using Nspire Calculators, students investigate the relationships of polynomial functions, their degree, end behaviors, zeros and x-intercepts.
Preparation: If you plan on having students use the .TNS file from Texas Instruments, you will want to have that ready to load onto the students' calculators. I recommend doing a test run on on at least one calculator. One time I found that I needed to do a complete update of the operating system on all of my calculators! I was so glad that I had tried before the lesson or it would have been a disaster!
Narrative: To introduce today's activity, I have students review what it means to find the zeros of a polynomial function. I plan to begin by having students complete page 2 of Multiplicity of Zeros Day 1 (p.1-2). If students do not recall zeros of a function, you can remind them. Here is a straight forward hint: find the values for x that make f(x) = 0. Push the students to come up with an algebraic solution, but do not restrict them to this approach. I think it is important in math that we allow students to solve problems in ways that make sense to them. I am curious, however, if some students may use a calculator and find the zeros from a table or graph.
While students are working, teams of students can come up and transfer the calculator file.
Note: At first, I was very nervous/intimated about loading TI programs during class. The first few times I used my TI calculators I would have all the files pre-loaded before students came in. But, it really does go quickly and save scarce time for other tasks.
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Multiplicity of Zeros, video narrative, Calculator Investigation is a detailed presentation of my plan to approach this lesson. In this video I discuss the following:
- Why I like to use Texas Instruments Lessons
- How to adapt the lesson for non-Nspire calculators, see Teacher Resource - Equations for Non-Nspire Calculators for more information too
- Importance of giving students time to 'play'
- Using page 3-5 of the flipchart to show students how to find the degree
- How this tasks builds on students' prior knowledge and is aligned to the CCSS
- How this task introduces end behaviors
- Mathematical practice 5 and 7 and how they relate to this activity
Below in my video reflection: Got zeros day 1, video reflection, Review Vocabulary, I highlight some of the obstacles that my students encountered as they completed today's exploration: Student Handout - Multiplicity_of_Zeros_of_Functions.
I would expect my students to probably only complete questions 1 and 2 today. Also, you may want to note for your students that on page 1.2 of this activity there is a slider to click at the top of the graph to change the function. There are six functions (#0-5). They should be on #0 for the first question.
Resources Use in this Lesson:
Multiplicity of Zeros of Functions. (accessed September 3, 2013 on Education.TI.com)
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With about 5 minutes remaining in class today, I am going to have students do a Stand up, hand up, pair up (with someone not already at their table!). I want students to then compare their answers in the table for question 2. This will allow each team of three to check their answer with possibly three other teams. Then when we come back tomorrow, individual students can bring back their findings to their team and teams can discuss revisions to their answers or how they wrote their answers.


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The Rochester Philharmonic League was founded in 1929 as a support group for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. For over 75 years, the two organizations have worked closely together to further the common goal of providing great music and music education for the community. The League's activities focus on educating young people about music and our orchestra, and on fostering the advancement of music talent in our youth.
Intermediate Grade Concerts and Primary Concerts – The RPO offers a series of five concerts each winter for 4th-6th graders and two concerts each spring for 1st-3rd graders. Each year, League volunteers escort over 15,000 children from the busses to their seats in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, providing an opportunity to attend a world-class orchestral performance that many of the students might never experience otherwise.
Young Artist Auditions (YAA) – The League organizes and hosts the prestigious Young Artist Auditions competition each March. High school students from nine counties compete for awards in the categories of male and female vocal, strings, piano, and instrumental. The first-place winners in the five categories audition before a panel of judges for a Special Award. The winner of the Special Award has the opportunity to audition at a later date for a performance with the RPO. The competition also awards two scholarships to high school seniors.
Fundraisers – Every summer, the League hosts a one-day chartered motor coach trip to a matinee performance at the Glimmerglass Opera Theatre in Cooperstown, New York, followed by dinner.
Special Events – The League organizes special events throughout the year, such as the Orchestra & Staff Appreciation Luncheon, the League Annual Meeting and Luncheon, a celebration of YAA winners, and the Spring Fling.
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League members share a common interest in music and supporting young musicians. They take pride in being part of an organization with a rich history of supporting the RPO. Besides giving financial support to the League, members have the option of participating as volunteers in various RPL annual activities.
Membership provides a unique opportunity to attend designated RPO rehearsals at Music, Munch & Mingle, and to meet RPO musicians and staff at League-sponsored events. Involvement in these events gives members the satisfaction of developing a much closer relationship with the Orchestra and its musicians. Members are regularly informed about current activities through the RPL quarterly newsletter.
The League is funded through the payment of annual dues by its members, through bequests, and by project revenue. We welcome your support! For additional information, please call the League Administrator at (585) 454-7311 x254, or e-mail your questions to firstname.lastname@example.com
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Rochester Philharmonic League Board of Directors, 2017-18
Mary Ann Giglio
Connie Kaminski
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19 High-Fiber Foods — Some May Surprise You!by KATHERINE BROOKING
Katherine Brooking
Katherine Brooking is a registered dietitian with a Master's degree in nutrition education. She co-founded Smart Cookie Productions, Inc., which publishes AppforHealth.com and produces a weekly nutrition series, Appetite for Health. She a frequent nutrition contributor to the TODAY show, The Early Show on CBS and Good Morning America Health. She is the co-author of "The Real Skinny: Appetite for Health's 101 Fat Habits & Slim Solutions."
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